What is the appeal of Mickey Mouse?

You know, Bubbler, the Wal-Mart on the hotel strip in Kissimmee near Walt Disney World is purported to be the busiest Wal-Mart in the world.

Food for thought, if you're looking for material.

 

I'm a Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny man, but as the parent of a 3-year-old I can see the appeal of Mickey Mouse.
If you have the Disney Channel and are awake at 8 a.m. Eastern, flip it on and watch the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoon (with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy & Pluto). My son loves it. There is some educational value to them. Besides, They Might Be Giants performs the theme song and the song that closes every episode- the "Hot Dog Dance"

 

I never had any affection or nostalgia for Disney characters or movies. I was really into the Muppets (now owned by Disney)/Sesame Street/Star Wars characters as a child in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

 

Mickey Mouse...the Paris Hilton of the cartoon world. Famous for being famous.

 

Once was a magical place
Over time it was lost
Price increased the cost
Now the fortune of the kingdom
Is locked up in its dungeon vaults
The castle floor lies in traps
With coiled wires set back
Decoyed by old cheese
Now the drawbridge has been lifted
As the millions
They drop to their knees
They pay homage to a king
Whose dreams are buried
In their minds
His tears are frozen stiff
Icicles drip from his eyes

The cold wind blows as it snows
On those who fight to get in
On heads that are small
Disillusioned as they enter
They're unaware what's
Behind castle walls
But now it's written in stone
The king has been overthrown
By jesterly fools
And the power of the people
Shall come to believe they do rule

Have they lost their heads
Or are they just all blind mice
We've heard all their stories
One too many times
Hypnotized by fireflies
That glow in the dark
Midgets that disguise themselves
As tiny little dwarves
The parade that's electrical
It serves no real purpose
Just takes up a lot of juice
Just to impress us

 

Mickey Mouse is an *sshole, and Disney sucks, with the exception of the original 'Escape from Witch Mountain.'

 

You guys are sad, sad people...

 

You'll have to forgive me my concern about the Disney stewardship of the Muppets. They can only do harm. Pray they don't.

 

To use a wrestling analogy (I know, I know, I can't resist) ... John Cena is the Mickey Mouse of wrestling. Little kiddies love him, the grownups want him to either turn heel or get squashed by Bugs Bunny.

 

No love for Droopy or his brother Drippy?

 

I used to get bothered every time the characters of an ABC show would go on vacation, they'd head to Disney. Then I decided to stop being bothered, and just not bother to watch it.